Facebook Fights Irish Privacy Watchdog’s Data-Transfer Curbs
- Move follows Irish threat to halt Facebook’s data transfers
- Legal wrangling comes after EU court toppled EU-U.S pact
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Facebook Inc. sought to derail proposals by the Irish data protection watchdog that the tech giant warns could curb transfers of vast amounts of commercial data across the Atlantic.
The social network giant said it sought a judicial review of the Irish Data Protection Commission’s preliminary decision that the company may have to halt trans-Atlantic data transfers using the most commonly used EU tool still available to firms.
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Facebook Fights Irish Privacy Watchdog’s Data-Transfer Curbs